Grasshoppers of Wyoming and the West

Entomology

Gladston Grasshopper

Melanoplus gladstoni (Scudder)

Table 1. Population fluctuations (in numbers per square yard) of grasshoppers in a shortgrass prairie site, northeastern Colorado. (Adapted from Capinera and Thompson).

	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985
Melanoplus gladstoni	0.2	0.3	0.9	1.1	0.7	0.1
Assemblage of 5 common species	0.4	0.9	2.4	4.0	3.1	1.6

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